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ANCIENT GREECE - GREEK
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ANCIENT GREECE - GREEK
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Estimate €600
Voluntary lot
Description
ANCIENT GREECE - GREEK
Sicily, Siculo-Punic issues. 1/8th of a shekel or hemidrachma, Second Punic War (214–210 BC), Agrigento (Akragas).
Obverse: Male head (Triptolemus?) wearing a wreath of wheat, facing right.
Reverse: A free-running horse galloping to the right; below, two Punic letters (TH?).
HGC 2, 173 – SNG Cop. 379–380 – Müller III, 38, 45 (Hiempsal II) – Mazard 78 (Hiempsal II); Silver – 1.92 g – 14.5 mm – 4 h
Acquired from the Banque Populaire du Nord in 1980.
In its original mint condition, with a very fine iridescent patina and particularly clear lettering on the reverse. Superb, in mint condition.
Combining both Carthaginian and Numidian styles, this coin was long attributed to a much later period: the reign of the Numidian king Hiempsal II, father of the Mauritanian king Juba I. The Punic letter H has also posed a problem: it could just as easily be attributed to Hannibal himself
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